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 This personal air defense system that tracks and shoots mosquitoes with a blue laser is officially available now. The runaway crowdfunding hit has been scaled up by its makers and is available for preorder from the company Photon Matrix's website.
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 Apple plans to send out invites for its annual iPhone event this week, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The event will likely take place on Wednesday, September 9, he said.
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The e-commerce giant blames increases in component costs for the device price hikes.
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 Apple today seeded the seventh betas of iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 to developers for testing purposes, with the update coming one week after Apple released the sixth betas.
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Nvidia is reportedly discussing a partnership, investment or acquisition involving South Korean AI chip startup Rebellions as inference demand grows.
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 iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS Golden Gate include Siri AI, Apple's much more capable version of ?Siri?. When the new updates launch, it appears Apple will use a waitlist and limit initial access.
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NEW RESOURCES EV Infrastructure News: Octopus launches Octopus Charge, a database of over 200,000 EV chargers in the US. "Octopus Energy US has launched Octopus Charge, a map-based database of 211,221 EV […]
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 It still surprises me just how many good, affordable cars fail to make their way to certain markets. Whether it be due to regulatory reasons, differences in consumer tastes, productio
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 Apple today provided developers with the seventh beta of macOS Golden Gate, with the update coming a week after Apple seeded the sixth beta.
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NEW RESOURCES Irish Legal News: Victim's charity Paper Trail maps nearly 4,500 lives lost to conflict. "Paper Trail, the Belfast-based victims' charity, has launched the beginning of its Memorial Map project an […]
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AI chatbots are changing the healthcare landscape, but privacy and transparency remain critical concerns.
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President Donald Trump threatened to raise automobile tariffs on Canada to 50% as the trade rift and political slanging match between the neighboring nations escalated.
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 Safari is one of the apps that Apple focused on in iOS 27, and it includes multiple new Apple Intelligence features. From automatically organizing tab groups to custom extensions, Safari is getting useful new capabilities.
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 It is now late August, meaning that Apple's annual iPhone event is just around the corner. Below, we take a look at when the event might be held this year.
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Take a look back at Apple's black box and everything it's added (or not) over the past decade.
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Amid broad privacy concerns, new apps like Zuckoff help detect smart glasses in the wild.
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I put these multimodal models through a camera test.
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If you've had it with OpenAI, here's how to cancel your subscription and delete your account.
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Google Pixel Tag and Apple AirTag 2 cost the same, but compatibility, tracking networks, sharing, and precision finding make the choice easier.
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The Nano also features SmoothiePilot, Vitamix's first adaptive smoothie program.
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Lorcana has exploded since it came on the scene, and I had a chance to chat with co-founder Ryan Miller about where it may be going next.
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Wi-Fi 6 Vs Wi-Fi 7: What's The Difference And Which Is Better For Home Internet?
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 A new 19.9-meter (65-ft) tower rises like a brutalist-inspired, twisted monolith above its rural surroundi
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 Apple today released a fifth version of the beta firmware it is testing for the AirPods Pro 2, AirPods Pro 3, AirPods 4, and AirPods Max 2. The firmware is available for developers and public beta testers. It has a build number of 9A5347a.
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Since 2019, Apple has released a more affordable standard iPhone and a higher-end "Pro" variant, giving customers multiple flagship iPhones to choose from. Apple is deviating from its standard release timeline this year and splitting the iPhone 18 launch.
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One of AI vendor DeepSeek's biggest selling points has been its ultra-low price point, but that party's about to end.
The Chinese model provider is raising API pricing for its V4 model family by notable margins, in some cases by more than 1,100%. The increases may not be that dramatic for all, though; the company is encouraging "more flexible workload scheduling," with peak rates and half-price off-peak rates.
The news was tucked into the announcement of the general availability (GA) of DeepSeek V4-Pro and upgrades to VR-Flash. The new pricing takes effect for most parts of the world on August 16.
"On paper, at peak, against the right comparator, DeepSeek's price advantage does disappear, and in places inverts," said Sanchit Vir Gogia, chief analyst at Greyhound Research. But in practice, "the schedule's own clock and cache hand most of it back to any buyer paying attention."
How Flash and Pro compare now
The new API pricing structure is as follows:
Flash is now $0.22 per million input tokens (cache miss) and $0.66 per million output tokens off-peak; and $0.44 per million input tokens (cache miss) and $1.32 per million output tokens at peak.
This is up from the flat rate of $0.14 for inputs (cache miss),
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has argued that policymakers should keep lower-risk open-weight AI accessible while placing stricter safeguards around frontier systems, including mandatory testing and limits on China's access to advanced computing and model capabilities.
In a post outlining Anthropic's position, Amodei said broad restrictions, including bans on Chinese open-weight models used by US businesses, would not address his main national security concerns. Instead, he pointed to the possibility of authoritarian governments surpassing the US in advanced AI, as well as cyber, biological, and alignment risks posed by increasingly capable systems.
Amodei also called for action against industrial-scale model distillation, which he said allows Chinese developers to improve their models with less computing power than would be needed to train comparable systems from scratch.
The statement followed criticism of Anthropic for not signing an industry letter backed by Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, IBM, Mistral, Hugging Face and other technology companies urging policymakers to avoid premature restrictions on open-weight models.
The letter said that open wei
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Into this fractious and uncertain landscape lands the Asus ROG Xbox Ally handheld, and its more souped-up version, the ROG Xbox Ally X. Launching later this week at $600 and $1,000, respectively, these gadgets are some major firsts for Microsoft. They're the first Xbox portable devices, even if their claim to being "Xboxes" is mostly a matter of marketing. They're the first post-Steam Deck portable gaming PCs made explicitly in cooperation with Microsoft and Xbox, though Asus has made two generations before them. And they're the official debut of the Xbox Fullscreen Mode, Microsoft's answer to the Steam Deck user interface.
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